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2. The apparatus of claim 1, wherein the tunnel header includes a Media Access Control (MAC) address and an IP address of the second network device.
3. The apparatus of claim 1, wherein the second portion is included in a User Datagram Protocol (UDP) header.
4. The apparatus of claim 1, wherein the hash function uses, as an input, at least one of (1) a Media Access Control (MAC) address associated with the first virtual resource or (2) a MAC address associated with the second virtual resource.
5. The apparatus of claim 1, wherein the hash function uses, as an input, a protocol identifier associated with the data packet.
11. The method of claim 10, wherein the tunnel header includes a Media Access Control (MAC) address of the second network device and an IP address of the second network device.
12. The method of claim 10, wherein the tunnel header includes at least one of a User Datagram Protocol (UDP) portion or a Transport Control Protocol (TCP) portion.
13. The method of claim 10, wherein the second portion is included in a User Datagram Protocol (UDP) header.
20. The method of claim 19, wherein the second portion of the first tunnel header is included in a User Datagram Protocol (UDP) header.
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June 6, 2023
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